From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 7:28:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBE037B55E for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21072; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:28:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38C6719A.D419CF1D@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 08:28:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kasper Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Block out PING. References: <001701bf88f2$79ff4960$2b4b4bd4@swebase.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kasper wrote: > > Is there any way to stop the machine to answer on ping, so that my machine > doenst answer on any ping? My server has been ping attacked a few times. Firewall or filter the inbound ICMP echo request packets. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message